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The Titanomachy is the massive battle between the old gods and what will become the Olympians. Both the Primordial Deities and the Titans were overthrown by their successors. The many battles finally ended with the Olympians taking control of the Universe.
The Titanomachy is based on the war of the same name and many other preceding events from Classical Mythology.
This article is about the great war of the Classical Gods. You may be looking for a different Titan.
Background
The Elder Gods
Khaos, the embodying goddess of the Abyss, in an attempt to copy and up show her brother, Yahweh, forms many gods and goddesses from her Dark Matter. The first set of gods she created was the powerful and amorphous Protogenoi, large polymorphic entities who embodies aspects of the Multiverse to come. Gaia was the first of these primordial beings, embodying life itself.
King and Queen of the Cosmos
She used her power over life to generate her own offspring through Primordial Parthenogenesis, better known as Pantheon Spawning. Her most prominent child was the sky god Ouranos who was her equal and opposite. The two took each other as husband and wife, with the god of procreation, Phanes, officiating their union.
Father Sky and Mother Earth
Ouranos and Gaia had several children together, most notable were the first twelve Titans. The primordials loved their beautiful and powerful offspring and longed for more. Their next group of children were two sets of triplets, the Tartalo and the Hecatoncheires. While more powerful than the Titans, they were, in the eyes of Ouranos, not beautiful. Ouranos hated and feared his monstrous children, and sought to be rid of them.
Titanomachy
Banishment of Gaia's Children
Finding the Tartalo and Hecatoncheires too monstrous and powerful, and fearing they would overthrow him and take his kingdom, Ouranos used his power to banish them to the far corners of the Void. He also curses them so that they can never return to the kingdom so he may never lay his eyes on them again.
While Ouranos hated the Tartalo and Hecatoncheires, Gaia loved all of her children unconditionally. She attempts to confront her husband for his mistreatment of their offspring, begging him to bring them back. He refused, completely relenting and instead insulting her for being able to produce such ugly children. The Void shook with their feud, until the two of them separated in a huff.
Castration of Ouranos
Furious with Ouranos, Gaia thought to herself how to depower her husband. Creating a large Harvesting Scythe, Gaia approached all of her Titan children, asking who would be the one to challenge their father. All refused except for the youngest son, Kronos, who took the offer without question. Gaia made it known, that in exchange for him taking over the Cosmos, he must release the Tartalo and Hecatoncheries.
Armed with the Harvesting Scythe, Kronos hid in his parent's chambers. When Ouranos eventually returned to Gaia, Kronos, leaped out to him and used the weapon to slice off his genitals, flinging them into the Void. Ouranos writhed in pain as his strength and powers drained from his Avatar like blood.
The blow to the Protogenos sent a shockwave through the entire Void, causing major devastation to the surroundings. Including the destruction of the Nexus Universe. As Ouranos faded away, he used the last of his strength to curse Kronos to meet the same fate he did. After this Ouranos lost his physical form, becoming completely imperceptible to others as an invisible, intangible spirit.
Consumption of the Olympians
While Kronos dismissed this at first, a part of him deep down worried if his father was telling the truth. When Kronos and Rhea had their first child, a daughter Rhea named Hestia, Kronos was quick to notice the aura around her and a notable twinkle in her eye. Without hesitation, the Titan king devoured his daughter whole, to the surprise and anger of Rhea. The same thing happened to their next four children, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, all of whom were eaten by their father in an attempt to prevent Ouranos' Curse from coming true.
Zeus' Foster Mother
Rhea had enough of her husband eating her children, and decided to hide her sixth child which she named Zeus. Zeus was taken far away from Kronos to the realm of ice, Niflheim. There he was raised by a newly sapient Auðumbla to adulthood. In the meantime, Rhea tricked Kronos into thinking he was eating a baby Zeus by swaddling a rock and presenting it to him. Kronos ate the rock without further inspection.
Memory Death of Auðumbla
When Zeus reached adulthood, he is greeted by the Collector who gives him a tough ultimatum. Either Zeus travels back to his real family and gives his father Kronos a potion to make him release his siblings and bring down the Titans, or he stays with his foster mother Auðumbla and let the universe fall into darkness. The Collector also mentions the price for the emetic, Auðumbla's sapience.
After a long deliberation, Zeus chose to save his birth family and leave the cow goddess behind. Within moments, her mind and body slowly withered back into a mindless animal, allowing her and Zeus to have one last goodbye before she forgets who he is.
Liberation of the Olympians
The Collector takes Zeus to Kronos' Castle and disguises him as a cup bearer. Zeus sneaks towards his father and gets him to to drink the emetic. Within moments Kronos fell ill and soon vomited up the contents of his stomach starting with the rock and working back up to Hestia. The gods, now fully grown, join Zeus and plan to take down the Titans.
Battle of the Titans
When the Olympians regrouped, they fought against the Titans in a ten year long battle that destroyed much of Europe. The Olympians were accompanied by some Titans who defected from the Kronos, namely Rhea who grew to despise her husband, Prometheus who knew to side with the Olympians due to his foresight ability, and Epimetheus who was tagged along with Prometheus.
The battle was nearly equal on both sides, with no one side taking the upper hand. It was not until Zeus and his brothers Poseidon and Hades traveled down to Tartarus and freed the Tartalo and Hecatoncheires. To thank them, the Tartalo made the gods special weapons to aid their battle. Hades received the Helm of Darkness, granting him invisability. Poseidon received his Trident, granting him power over water. Lastly Zeus received the Thunderbolt, granting him power over lighting and electricity.
With their weapons and new muscle in the form of the Hecatoncheires, the Olympians managed to overtake the Titans. They used the weapons to cut Kronos into pieces and banished to Tartarus. The rest of the Titans surrendered, allowing the Olympians to take control of the Earth.
Aftermath
The Olympians
The gods took control of the Earth and moved the headquarters of the Pantheon to Mount Olympus in Greece. The defected Titans and Tartalo were allowed to live with the gods in Olympus, officially forming the Olympians. The Hecatoncheires, however, were tasked with guarding the loyalist Titans who were locked in Tartarus.
Imprisonment of the Titans
Once the battle concluded, the Titans still loyal to Kronos was locked away in Tartarus allowing the Olympians and their followers to take control of the Earth. Special care was taken with Kronos' body pieces, which were carefully entombed at the center of Tartarus.
Banishment of Atlas
As the forerunner of the Titans during the battle, the Olympians reserved a unique punishment for the Titan Atlas. He was banished to the empty lonely island soon to be known as Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. There he was forced to bare the weight of the entire Ether on his shoulders for eternity,
External Links
See Titanomachy on Wikipedia
| Wars and Conflicts in Olympian History | |||
| Titanomachy • Rampage of the Keres • Duel of Olympus • Banishment of Typhon • Sinking of Atlantis • Gigantomachy • Invasion of Olympus • Binding of Prometheus • Opening of Pandora's Box • Earthquake of Rhodes • Lycanthropy of Lycaon • Kidnapping of Persephone | |||
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